Prevailing Emotional Features and Their Indications in Contemporary Mask Art

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the dominant emotional features and their indications in contemporary mask art. The theoretical framework consists of two sections:

Section One (Epistemology of Emotional Features: Between Emotional Charge and Expression).

Section Two (The Concept of Indication and its Approaches in Mask Art).

The researcher adopted the descriptive approach with the method of quantitative statistical content analysis in analyzing the research sample. The research instrument was constructed and face validity and reliability were achieved in light of statistical means represented by (Chi-square) and (Pearson's) equation through the correlation coefficient and (Fisher's equation) to use the weighted mean. The research results were distributed in six areas of the main emotional connotations of contemporary mask art. The research sample, consisting of (321) masks, was stratified according to the secondary emotional features with their indications to mask art in each of the six areas of the main emotional features with their indications to contemporary mask art. They were distributed in descending order represented in the following form: the connotation of violence, the connotation of irony, the feeling of excitement (love and sex), the connotation of the feeling of alienation, the connotation of the feeling of wonder (masks strangely), the connotation of celebration and the feeling of the spirit of the group. The results were interpreted and discussed.